Generic Sevco / Rangers meltdown thread

[pacoluna]

Bates just signed 4 year deal with hamburg, great move for him.

[Ozyhibby]

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Bates just signed 4 year deal with hamburg, great move for him.

Special relationship.


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[HoboHarry]

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Bates just signed 4 year deal with hamburg, great move for him.

Is that Sevco getting another 8 million quid transfer fee? 😂

[Famous Fiver]

What will our internet chums in the west make of this move?

I thought the the Rangers were one of the top clubs in the world yet this gadgie is apparently heading for the nether regions of the Bundesliga.

Let's hope they Follow, Follow.

[ancient hibee]

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Is that Sevco getting another 8 million quid transfer fee? 😂

Free agent.

[Smartie]

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I think I’ve watched too many cup final videos on YouTube. I’m getting spammed on YouTube with ads from The Rangers trying to flog season tickets with the message “we are the people”.

I remember there once being an article in the paper, outraged about a sentence that was on the top of a Rangers flag that was apparently the name of a Loyalist anthem.

Not knowing what it referred to and being curious, I stuck it into Youtube to listen to the song in question. When you hear Rangers and Celtic fans singing, I honestly never know what's bile and what is not.

For years after, on the column down the right where it suggests songs you might want to listen to I'd have anthems of bigotry, all adorned with red hands, Union flags, balaclavas and guns and the like.

It used to piss me right off, and not for the first time I had to awkwardly explain to Mrs Smartie what exactly I had been looking at on my computer.

[Sylar]

I automatically assumed Bates was a financial offload. Had no idea he was a free agent.

Great move for him, but The Rangers' fans should be livid - he's one of their most promising young players prior to his injury.

I thought they would have built on a future defense around Bates, McCrorie, John and Tavernier.

[Billy Whizz]

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I automatically assumed Bates was a financial offload. Had no idea he was a free agent.

Great move for him, but The Rangers' fans should be livid - he's one of their most promising young players prior to his injury.

I thought they would have built on a future defense around Bates, McCrorie, John and Tavernier.

This time last year he was playing for their development team v Hibs.

[Ozyhibby]

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I automatically assumed Bates was a financial offload. Had no idea he was a free agent.

Great move for him, but The Rangers' fans should be livid - he's one of their most promising young players prior to his injury.

I thought they would have built on a future defense around Bates, McCrorie, John and Tavernier.

Isn’t John only on loan?


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[Billy Whizz]

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Isn’t John only on loan?


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He is

[Tynie01011973]

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He is

No he signed 3 1\2 permanent deal for them in december

[Captain Trips]

Are Sevco not dead yet?

[Billy Whizz]

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No he signed 3 1\2 permanent deal for them in december

Your right, must have missed it

[Jack Hackett]

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Are Sevco not dead yet?

Life support machine.

[GordonHFC]

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Life support machine.

I'd like to be the one to turn it off please 😁

[Jack Hackett]

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I'd like to be the one to turn it off please 😁

There's a waiting list.

[WeeRussell]

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I'd like to be the one to turn it off please 😁

I'll be happy just watching.

[Lago]

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Are Sevco not dead yet?

Going by Dave the King maker, they are going to win the league next season

[Captain Trips]

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Going by Dave the King maker, they are going to win the league next season

3rd Division?

[Famous Fiver]

Slightly off topic but isn't it interesting how Ally McCoist, after a period of keeping a very low profile after his costly exit from the the Rangers, is never out of the media pontificating on everything Rangers. How the west coast hordes must hang on every word.

On topic. Any chance of him worming his way back in again?

[Wee Effen Bee]

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Sorry but my late Grand-dad told me that calllng them 'The Hun' originated just after the 1st world-war with Germany - Rangers-fans were no angels even then and at that time, being called a 'Hun' was considered a great insult so it was only natural it was applied to them !

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I always believed it was because the Royal family were Germans (known as the Hun in WW1). The family name was Battenberg before having to change it to Windsor due to anti-German feeling in 1917 - London had been bombed and, a year or so earlier, the Lusitania was sunk. Couldn’t have anyone thinking they were the enemy 🤔 as 1000s of people from German extraction had already been detained and/or deported after riots throughout England -not sure if we had them too. Anyway, Rangers’ unconditional support for the Royals was legendary so, later on, Rangers = Royalty erse-lickers = the Hun! Nowt to do with religion at all! Simple really! 😁

[MartinfaePorty]

Saxe-Coburg Gotha was it not?

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[lord bunberry]

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Warning: history lesson approaching:
I always believed it was because the Royal family were Germans (known as the Hun in WW1). The family name was Battenberg before having to change it to Windsor due to anti-German feeling in 1917 - London had been bombed and, a year or so earlier, the Lusitania was sunk. Couldn’t have anyone thinking they were the enemy 🤔 as 1000s of people from German extraction had already been detained and/or deported after riots throughout England -not sure if we had them too. Anyway, Rangers’ unconditional support for the Royals was legendary so, later on, Rangers = Royalty erse-lickers = the Hun! Nowt to do with religion at all! Simple really! 😁

I love how they waited until 1917 to change their name. Clearly hedging their bets.

[Famous Fiver]

Interesting thread on the Rangers Fans Forum about the merits of signing McGinn and McGeouch in the summer.

They are allowed to use sweary words over there!!!

[Joe6-2]

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Interesting thread on the Rangers Fans Forum about the merits of signing McGinn and McGeouch in the summer.

They are allowed to use sweary words over there!!!

The language they use is disgusting

[Deansy]

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Interesting thread on the Rangers Fans Forum about the merits of signing McGinn and McGeouch in the summer.

They are allowed to use sweary words over there!!!

One of them managed to thumb this -

'McGinn has said he would never play for us. I don't understand why people suggest him'


I can't recall McGinn saying anything at all about them but if it's true then he's just gone even further up in my estimation and respect - a young, professional footballer who wants to go far in the game and have nothing to do with 'The Place Where Football Goes To Die' !

[snooky]

Sir David Murray annoucing that he and The Wife are splitting up after 7 years.
Interesting part of the article that will cheer up Rangers fans no end was this line .....

"Since 2008 Murray’s personal wealth has gone down from an estimated £720 millon to £180 million"



Then again, maybe not.

[The Pointer]

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Warning: history lesson approaching:
I always believed it was because the Royal family were Germans (known as the Hun in WW1). The family name was Battenberg before having to change it to Windsor due to anti-German feeling in 1917 - London had been bombed and, a year or so earlier, the Lusitania was sunk. Couldn’t have anyone thinking they were the enemy 🤔 as 1000s of people from German extraction had already been detained and/or deported after riots throughout England -not sure if we had them too. Anyway, Rangers’ unconditional support for the Royals was legendary so, later on, Rangers = Royalty erse-lickers = the Hun! Nowt to do with religion at all! Simple really! 😁

'Mountbatten' not 'Windsor'.

Not sure about the story either as I'd always believed it was a (relatively) more recent thing. Maybe someone who is in their nineties can confirm.

[ancient hibee]

For what it’s worth I had never heard Rangers called the huns until their fans started laying waste to various parts of England in the late 60s.

[Keith_M]

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For what it’s worth I had never heard Rangers called the huns until their fans started laying waste to various parts of England in the late 60s.

It was a quite famous newspaper headline in the 1970s, in a Midlands Newspaper, after one of their many rampages through an English town.

As an aside, my Grandad always said that, although Celtc were always considered to be a Catholic/Irish club, Rangers weren't really considered to be a 'Protestant' club until the 1920s. He said that side of things surfaced quite heavily when large numbers of Protestants left Ireland after Independence and started settling over here, combined with the generally anti-Irish feeling at the time because of the Irish fight for independence.